2025届广东省佛山市顺德区高三11月第一次质检-英语试题（含答案）.docx

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024 年顺德区普通高中高三教学质量检测(一)
英语试题
本试卷共 8 页，满分 120 分，考试用时 120 分钟。
注意事项：
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从第二部分的“阅读理解”开始，试题号从“21”开始。
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第二部分 阅读(共两节，满分 50 分)
第一节(共 15 小题;每小题 2.5 分，满分 37.5 分)
阅读下列短文，从每题所给的 A、B、C、D 四个选项中选出最佳选项。
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Animal Care Volunteer Program in Argentina-Cordoba
Project details
Want to volunteer with animals in Argentina-Córdoba? Animal Care Volunteer Program benefits both rescued
animals and children from low-income areas of Córdoba. Volunteers help at a small farm that works as an animal
shelter and learning centre, where local children spend the day connecting with animals outdoors and participating
in activities that they would not be able to access through their own means.
What to expect?
From horses to baby goats, rabbits to chickens, volunteers are tasked with the important responsibility of
tending to the needs of these animals, ensuring they receive the care, treatment, and attention necessary for their
well-being.
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Volunteer tasks may vary but typically involve:
Playing and entertaining animals
Keeping their living spaces clean
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Maintaining the grounds, including painting and repairing as necessary
Tending to crops and managing natural fertilizers
Welcoming and guiding visitors
Helping to organize fundraising events
What will you gain?
By volunteering on the Animal Care project, you’ll be adding value to the local community, while also
developing personally and professionally by:
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Practicing your Spanish
Developing your communication skills
Gaining animal care and farm experience
Fully engaging yourself in Argentine culture
Exploring the stunning region and city of Córdoba
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. What is the main purpose of the Animal Care Program in Córdoba?
A. To provide training for volunteers.
B. To run a commercial farm for profit.
C. To improve the life of the local people.
D. To care for animals and children alike.
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. Which task may volunteers do at the animal shelter?
A. Cleaning animal living spaces.
B. Conducting medical research.
C. Organizing tourist trips to different cities.
D Painting and repairing the city of Córdoba.
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. What will you gain from volunteering there?
A. Running a farm business.
B. Improving your Spanish.
C. Exploring Córdoba for free.
D. Learning to cook for the locals.
B
My daughter is a smart kid, but she’ d never read an entire chapter book for pleasure. She had never developed
any habit of classic deep reading — with two eyes in front of paper, and nothing else going on. When I faced this
truth, it felt like a parenting failure. Even though we’d read many storybooks when she was younger and we lived
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in a house stuffed with books, I hadn’t managed to instill (灌输) one of life’s fundamental pleasures in my kid.
As a lifelong reader, I understand how reading enhances the fabric of our experience. Yet my daughter
claimed to dislike reading. I told her reading novels was the best way to learn about how people’s insides work. She
said she could learn more from the people on social media, who were all about spilling their insides. I said books
offered storytelling. She said, “Smartphones.” I said books taught history. She said, “The Internet.”
I could not win our debates, because few of my daughter’s arguments against reading seemed wrong to me.
Yes, reading is a way to discover new worlds — so is the entire Internet. But that’s not why I wanted my daughter
to pick up a book. It was about experiencing a certain magic. You know when an author describes a feeling you
didn’t have, and a hundred lightbulbs go off on the top of your head? I wanted her to have a chance at feeling that.
A screen-based medium can’t create this kind of relationship because, by its nature, the medium must fill in all the
blanks for you. Books leave space for blanks — and for the internal invention they can inspire.
So I decided to cut through all the reasoning with a cold, hard practicality: cash. I told my11-year-old I would
pay her $100 to read a novel within a month. Of course, she said yes. She finished the book in seven days. Then she
even asked for the sequel (续集) — at no extra charge. Will this lead to her reading Little Women? Will it result in
a lifelong habit of reading? I don’t know. What I do know is that I finally opened a new door for her to the printed
page. That feels like the best money I ever spent.
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. What does the “parenting failure” in paragraph 1 refer to?
A. Failure to get along well with her daughter.
B. Failure to meet her daughter’s emotional needs.
C. Failure to develop a reading habit in her daughter.
D. Failure to provide enough storybooks in the house.
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. Why does the author want her daughter to read books?
A. To help her discover new worlds.
B. To help her fill in all the blanks.
C. To help her spend less time on the Internet.
D. To let her feel a moment of deep connection.
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. How does the author feel about spending $100 to encourage her daughter to read?
A. She regrets spending the money.
B. She is unsure if it will lead to a love of reading.
C. She feels disappointed with the final outcome.
D. She is confident in her daughter’s future choices.
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What could be a best title for the passage?
A. Creating a Reader: A Mother’s Journey
B. Encouraging Reading: Tips for Children
C. The Magic of Books in a Digital Age
D. The Decline of Reading Among Children
C
People often think that scientific discoveries come from the geniuses like Charles Darwin and Albert Einstein.
Such a view overlooks the efforts of lesser-known pioneers. Also, popular belief holds that the sudden idea is the
key to making scientific breakthroughs, as if it just appears in someone’s mind.
This opinion might be partially true. It doesn’t accurately represent the true nature of scientific breakthroughs.
Apart from, the great figures such as Darwin and Einstein, whose contributions are rightly recognized — we
believe innovation is largely a trial-and-error process, where two steps forward may sometimes come with one step
back or even more steps to the right or left.
Take John Nicholson, a lesser-known scientist from the 1910s. He was a mathematical physicist who
suggested the idea of ‘proto-elements’ in space. By mixing different weights of these atoms, he could recover the
weights of the elements in the periodic table. Though proto-elements don’t actually exist, Nicholson’s wild ideas
led him to propose a new theory about atomic structure. Niels Bohr, the Nobel prize-winning father of modern
atomic theory, later built on this idea to develop his famous model of the atom.
What can we learn from this story? Science is always evolving, similar to the evolution of animal species. Just
random or unexpected changes of ideas may open the door for advances in science. Support for this idea can be
seen in many areas. For example, in US horse racing, the ‘acey-deucy’ stirrup placement, where the rider’ s left
foot is placed lower than the right foot, provides a speed advantage on oval tracks. It was created by a little-known
rider named Jackie Westrope. Had Westrope done careful research to develop this technique? No. He had a leg
injury that prevented him from fully bending his left knee. This change just happened to improve his left-hand
turning performance. As a result, many riders quickly adopted the acey-deucy style, which is still used in racing
today.
Many other examples show science progress often comes from mistakes, accidents, or pure luck. It’s time to
abandon the naive beliefs of genius and explore the true causes of creativity.
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. What is the purpose of paragraph 1?
A. To support specific ideas.
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B. To describe a common belief.
C. To compare certain beliefs.
D. To challenge a popular view.
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. What does the writer imply about Darwin and Einstein in paragraph 2?
A. They set an example for others to follow.
B. Their way of working has been misunderstood.
C. They are exceptions to the usual rule.
D. Their achievements deserve greater recognition.
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0. What do we know about the idea of Nicholson?
A. It made him famous as an important scientist.
B. People only fully understood it later in history.
C. Other scientists were initially doubtful about it.
D. It paved the way for someone else’ s breakthrough.
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1. What is most interesting about the ‘acey-deucy’ stirrup adjustment?
A. Why it was made.
B. How quickly people used it.
C. The research work behind it.
D. The cleverness of its first user.
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This has been the decade of AI, with one advancement after another. By mid-century, we may have artificial
general intelligence (AGI) — machines that can do all the things humans can. And that’s just the beginning.
Machines aren’t affected by the same physical limitations that affect human intelligence. Once machines
outperform humans, progress towards these limits could speed up even more.
What does this mean for us? Can we make sure we live safely with these machines? On the positive side, AI is
already useful in many areas, and super AI could be super useful. However, as AI grows more powerful, it becomes
crucial to define its goals clearly. There are many folk stories about people who ask for the wrong thing, with
disastrous consequences. For instance, King Midas wished everything he touched to turn to gold, but he didn’t
expect his breakfast to turn to gold too.
So we need to create powerful AI machines that are ‘human-friendly’ — with values that match our own. One
thing that makes this task difficult is that humans aren’t always kind or reliable. We often do many terrible things to
many other creatures with whom we share the planet. If super intelligent machines don’t act better than we do,
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we’ll be in deep trouble.
For our own safety, we want the machines to be morally as well as cognitively (认知的) superior to humans.
We want them to aim for the moral high ground. However, this utopian vision faces two big problems. The first is
‘getting started’ problem — pointing the machines in the right direction, which won’t be easy because we are
always conflicted about our own values. The second problem is the ‘destination’ problem — what it would mean to
reach this destination. If we put ourselves in the hands of these super machines, we might lose our own freedom —
which is a key part of being human.
So where exactly would that leave human beings? It’s more important to think about the destination now and
be careful about what we wish for.
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2. What point does the writer make about AI in paragraph 1?
A. AGI will definitely replace humans.
B. AI’s future potential seems limitless.
C. There’s much to learn about super AI.
D. AI shares many features with humans.
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3. Why does the author mention the story of King Midas?
A. To compare different kinds of goals.
B. To suggest that AI should reflect human values.
C. To show poorly defined goals may lead to problems.
D. To warn about the danger of becoming greedy with AI.
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4. What challenge does the writer mention in paragraph 3?
A. Getting humans to act more morally.
B. Building a better world for all creatures.
C. Making AI more human-friendly than humans.
D. Choosing which values AI should share with us.
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5. What does the underlined phrase “this utopian vision” refer to?
A. Humans can ensure the safety of machines.
B. Machines will help solve these two big problems.
C. Humans and machines have the same moral ground.
D. Machines get smarter and more moral than humans.
第二节(共 5 小题;每小题 2.5 分，满分 12.5 分)
阅读下面短文，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。有两项为多余选项。
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Charisma — or rizz (人气) was crowned 2023 word of the year by the publisher of the Oxford English
Dictionary. Who could blame us for obsessing over charisma? It can smooth social interactions, win us friends, and
score promotions. ____16____
Approachable and relatable. Many executives and professionals I find confident and chatty admit charisma
wasn’t something that came naturally. ____17____ Dave, a chief executive of Cargill, made a point to remember
the details and dates of people’s lives, such as colleagues’ birthdays. He’d pen words of thanks or congratulations.
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___18____ Treating people differently will backfire, says Carla Harris, a Morgan Stanley executive. She
chats up the woman cleaning the office, the receptionist at her doctor’s, the guy waiting alongside her for the
elevator. “Don’t be confused,” she tells young people. Executive assistants are often the most powerful people in
the building, and you never know how someone can help or hurt you.
Accepting your mistakes. It’s not that charming people don’t occasionally mispronounce a word or spill their
coffee. ____19____ They acknowledge the mistake instead of trying to hide it, make a small joke, and move on.
Being perfectly polished all the time is not only exhausting, it’s impossible. Appearing flawless can come off as
fake.
At its heart, charism a isn’t about some grand performance. ____20____ It’s about making our conversation
partners feel they’ re the charming — or interesting or funny — ones. While skills get you hired, it’s
communication and trust that lead up the ladder.
A. Everyone is important.
B They had to work on it.
C. They easily get attention.
D. It’s also possible to develop.
E. They just have a faster comeback.
F. It’s a feeling we bring out in others.
G. We like people who make few mistakes.
第三部分 语言运用(共两节，满分 30 分)
第一节(共 15 小题;每小题 1 分，满分 15 分)
阅读下面短文，从每题所给的 A、B、C、D 四个选项中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。
For her 68th birthday in 2019, Rosa Saito decided to give herself an unusual gift — she decided to become a
model. Over the past years, she had been ____21____ by photographers on the streets, each telling her to consider
modeling. She initially ____22____ the idea because no one ever had commented on her appearance. But over
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time, something began to change inside her. “Being spotted made me realize I could still achieve something just for

___23____ at this stage of my life,” she recalled. ____24____, she decided to embrace the opportunity.
Her first casting didn’t land her a job but the ____25____ fueled her excitement. “I was used to facing
challenges my whole life. I was ____26____ to keep going,” Saito said. At just 22, she had learned ____27____
when she cared for her sick mother. Later, she raised her three children alone after the loss of her husband. She
embraced whatever life ____28____ her.
At 69, Saito’s efforts ____29____ when she got her first modelling job for a Brazilian cosmetics brand. “As
the oldest pe